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"Flixel is an open source game-making library that is completely free for personal or commercial use. Written entirely in Actionscript 3, and designed to be used with free development tools, Flixel is easy to learn, extend and customize."
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"ProtoRPC is a simple way to send and receive HTTP-based remote procedure call (RPC) services."
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"The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications."
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"Core Animation based UI framework for Mac"
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"Portable Firefox With Web Hacking Addons Bundled. It is useful for instant web app security assessment. It includes Firebug, HackBar, JSDebugger, NF-Tools, LiveHttpHeaders, Selenuim IDE, FireEncrypter, TamperData, WebDeveloper, etc."
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"This tool helps you encoding arbitrary texts to and from 65 kinds of charsets. Also some encoding/encryption/hashing functions featured by JavaScript/PHP are provided."
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"a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information"
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"a collection of sites using media queries"
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"an open source bookmarklet that makes CSS selector generation and discovery on complicated sites a breeze"
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"a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X"
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"a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort"
Because I really needed to clean these tabs out of the browser.
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(tags: osx nfs)
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(tags: osx nfs)
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(tags: osx nfs)
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(tags: osx nfs)
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"a platform for rapidly developing websites"
(tags: webdev django social tools programming)
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(tags: virtualization vmware ubuntu jeos dev)
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"The Swiss Army knife of QuickTime components"
(tags: mac osx quicktime plugins video)
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"free internet tv and video podcast player"
(tags: video mac osx hd bittorrent)
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(tags: vmware diy hardware)
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"Clever technique to help you on CSS hacks." Get rid of CSS hacks and substitute in a javascript browser sniff.
(tags: javascript css hacks)
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(tags: ubuntu fonts howto)
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(tags: illustrator charts tutorial)
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This was everything I needed to know to make some JS keyboard shortcuts work.
(tags: javascript webdev programming keyboard)
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(tags: flickr uverse at&t)
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(tags: webdev visualization charts flash opensource)
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(tags: webdev visualization charts flash opensource)
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(tags: defrag utility opensource free windows)
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"Independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software"
(tags: antivirus comparison reviews)
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“How to enable verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status Messages in the Windows Server 2003 family [and XP]”
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“an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions”
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“an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software”
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“an open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product”
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This [django] snippet allows you to use YUI’s autocomplete widget in a easy way.
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“applies Markdown and typogrify, and adds Pygments highlighting to any <code> elements found in the text”
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“Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator […] targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6 and Linux 2.6 platforms. [Varnish] will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating syst
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A simple “nofollow” filter for Django.
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“PIDA is an IDE […] written in Python with the PyGTK toolkit.”
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“The end product is an Ubuntu Feisty server using Apache2 and mod_python to serve Django, and lighttpd to serve static media. It uses memcached as its caching backend, and uses Postgres8.2 as its database.”
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Some capitaliztion variations that might be useful for future ad campaigns.
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Apache 2.x module that sets long expire and cache-control headers so that specified files or directories will be cached for a long time.
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These are the best-looking headphones I have seen.
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how to enter data in a spreadsheet and then generate a set of placemarks for that data in Google Earth
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“adds support of APE tag format, FLAC MetaData, OGG Vorbis Comments, and MPEG4 ‘meta’ atom”
For today’s browser spring cleaning, I will be offering several sets of links, grouped by topic.
I’m exploring the use of django for my next web project.
And speaking of that next project, I have a large stash of webdev links.
And what web2.0 project would be complete without mentioning Amazon’s S3 and EC2?
I found this excellent collection of Movable Type plugins recently. I don’t exactly have a use for them as of yet, but they’re too good to lose.
Next we have some OS tricks. These are fun. Well, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Some x86 virtualization links:
Firefox is breathing easier now—-and using around 100MB less RAM.
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“Download free web design templates.”
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“over 400 high quality XHTML web design templates”
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“Download Free Web Design Templates”
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Beryl’s in the new Knoppix! “To enable it, you have to use the knoppix desktop=beryl cheat code on boot.”
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“a free keyboard remapper for Windows NT/2000/XP”
I have been reading a large amount of information on slipstreaming and unattended installations of Windows XP/2003 lately, so here’s my linkdump of all of the juiciest nuggets:
I haven’t tried out any of these methods yet, but I’m looking forward to building a stripped down, customized, unattended install CD for both XP and 2003.
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“Install apps over the air, without the need for ActiveSync”
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Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer
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HSRP/VRRP alternative for Linux
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“free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager”
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"a secure data removal tool, which allows you to remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns"
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“Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows”
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“makes setting up of all your contexts, projects, and next actions a breeze”
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This tutorial will show you how to create visually appealing charts using Adobe Illustratorâs graph tool.
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I have been meaning to update the aging BitTorrent Links post for some time now. TorrentFreak, an excellent BitTorrent blog, has put together a great list of sites that will do for now.
- Torrentz
- Mininova
- ThePirateBay
- Torrentspy
- Isohunt
- Meganova
- Bitenova
- Bittorrent
- Torrentbox
- TorrentReactor
If you can find what you need on these sites, chances are that it’s just not out there.
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“a new type of Javascript library”
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A nicely packaged installer instead of a bunch of zip files.
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Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications
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“Take one of these and call me in the morning.”
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Free, open source, easy-to-use Eclipse distributions and plugins for Windows, Mac and Linux
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The best tips that I have found for Gmail have been on this site. This one certainly doesn’t disappoint.
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The Atom logo, from a tiny SVG file.
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uses SVG to visualize Mint visitor data
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“Now chicagocrime.org’s media files are served directly off of S3, at a cost of 35 cents a month, and my Apache is happier.”
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“… I bet it would be the fastest Java XML parser on the planet …”
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“An Innovative CSS Tool for Analysis, Debugging, and Fine-tuning”
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Builds on the Smarty template engine, DAL data access layer, CPAINT remoting framework, and Prototype Javascript library.
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“Google Related Links use the power of Google to automatically bring fresh, dynamic and interesting content links to any website.”
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“Quicksilver, the one compulsory utility for any OS X user, gets radial menus.”
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“all the basics of CSS design”
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“Find local showtimes scheduled back-to-back and spend the entire day at the movies!”
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“Pork filet, Carrots and Grapefruit in a butter sauce” —- Yum!
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Using Google Reader to splice feeds.
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“It’s written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb driv
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“a Getting Things Done todo-list tracking tool”
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The jury is still out on whether assumptions of this tool are accurate, but it’s certainly an interesting peek into Google’s PR data.
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I really enjoyed the Honda Ridgeline videos linked to by this post.
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“Trade in your old technology for Paypal cash!”
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“a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications”
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“Itâs only a matter of time before server-push data hits an inflection point in the same way that background single-request/single-response data transfer did with Ajax.”
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“Real Estate Value + Google Maps”
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“… using nanotube structures to improve on an energy storage device called an ultracapacitor.”
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“Sometimes itâs not about how the gear sounds, but how it looks.”
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“Part motorcycle, part four-wheeler, the Type 1 prototype was influenced by Star Wars speeder bikes, Japanese manga and Elf enclosed-motorcycle prototypes of the 1990s.”
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Google’s new print ad auction.
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“Google Talk addons skins tricks tutorials downloads bots forum secrets tweaks”
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OSX exposé-like view of all your tabs in firefox (for FF1.5+).
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Displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.
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“Download Faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports.”
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“searches for album cover art for your current iTunes track at amazon.com”
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Sweet presentation done in XUL
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This appears to be the original source of the XUL presentation tool.
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“The addition of On2’s VP6 video codec to Macromedia Flash 8 marks a turning point in Internet video delivery.”
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A while back I searched a bit for a way to decode NSC files. I didn’t find anything. And now the guy who cracked DVD encryption has released some code that will decode NSC files.
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Donate and watch the numbers rise!
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“We code viruses for the fun of it, because it’s our hobby, not because we want to harm other people or to get ourselves into trouble.”
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“a movement to take back the world of hacking”
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Phrack’s last issue will be out soon.
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Dunstan’s blog may be gone, but he still posts his photos on Flickr.
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“The additional advantage of gin is that it allows the drink to actually glow in black light …”
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“writing toys, games & gizmoz to inspire your creativity!”
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“Flickr’s Fabulous Females”
I have way too many tabs open in Firefox, so I’m cleaning things up with this post. If you’re not interested, feel free to move along.
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“Clear, effective documents, from creative briefs to change order forms, can help you get or stay on the right footing” —Zeldman
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This is the best article on CI that I have found so far.
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“hundreds of original, freeware fonts”
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“Download free and shareware fonts”
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Tim Bray says that Atom is basically finished.
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Flickr-style annotation using only DHTML
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The coolest del.icio.us client got Open-Sourced!
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